InterContinental Hotels Group has become the first international hotel brand to drop its price increase plan after government intervention.
Hoteliers are providing guests with eco-friendly amenities such as complimentary bikes, electric car-charging stations and in-house farmers markets to make properties a little greener.
Business intelligence is changing more than just revenue management. It’s also changing what hospitality industry roles can use the data.
A visit to six luxury properties in Florida exposed some obvious cutbacks in service and amenities that seem out of place for the chain scale.
Google has recently rolled out a new and simple Google + layout and to see the new changes, you will need to opt in to the latest version when you sign into your hotel’s Google + page.
Though Social Media, hoteliers can attract the potential guests and visually show hotels’ images and help in regularly updating any news about the amendments and add-ons so as to promote the hotels.
Accoding to the white paper of TripAdvisor - ‘Using Guest Reviews to Pave the Path to Greater Engagement’, highly engaged hotels perform better on TripAdvisor.
Only through being involved can we ensure that our interests, as well as the interests of the traveling public, are being protected when it comes to Airbnb and the sharing economy.
Digital Content Marketing involves the distribution of engaging information across digital marketing channels.In hospitality, Digital Content Marketing is especially important.
Sheraton Macao Hotel is pleased to introduce Junior Hotelier, its newest family-oriented initiative that allows kids to learn about operating a hotel while having fun along the way.
China’s express or mid-range hotel brands are rapidly expanding across Asia, propelled by the impressive growth of Chinese outbound tourism.
Organic search is the leading source of traffic for hotel websites, and over 50% of online revenue in the hospitality industry originates from the search engines.
Hoteliers and developers have started moving to restructure loans on their delayed projects after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently eased norms pertaining to the start of commercial operations.
Two-thirds (66 percent) of millennial high-frequency travelers rate "unique rewards" as an important factor when choosing a hotel loyalty program.
The hottest trend among hoteliers at the moment is the concept of “soft-branding” — that is, adding prominent hotels to a “collection,” rather than reflagging them with their own brands.
The battle over social media channel dominance continues to wage, as Pinterest (21%) becomes more popular than Twitter (18%) among Internet users in 2013, according to Pew Research Center.
Hotels are commodities to some and unique, service-oriented escapes to others. In light of this, hoteliers must carefully weigh the growing needs of intelligent distribution and revenue management with the demands and desires of partners and guests.
Hanson has predicted that the average net result of negotiations will be increases between 5% and 6%.
I just hope that the money that you will have to pay back is more than what each property took in.
Not only is demand up, but most hoteliers said pricing power has returned and they are finally able to push rate without experiencing consequential declines in occupancy.
Will they see the roofs of other buildings, where sometimes the roof is used as a storage room?
Mr Sun plans to return to Chong Qing tomorrow to promote Dunedin"s attractions and business opportunities.
Hainan might not – yet – have the advanced tourism infrastructure that can be found in Phuket, Bali or Langkawi, but it does have the massive advantage of being less than a four-hour plane ride from China’s major cities.
The delegates met for the third and final day of the Young Hoteliers Summit 2012 with enthusiasm, excitement and intense motivation.